The House with a Clock in Its Walls. Poster of the 2018 movie and cover of the 1973 book
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The House with a Clock in Its Walls
John Bellairs, 1973
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Eli Roth, 2018

In 1955, after his parents are killed in a car crash, ten-year-old Lewis Barnavelt moves to live with his Uncle Jonathan to New Zebedee, Michigan. The house’s previous owners were a sinister warlock named Isaac Izard, an orphaned former friend and fellow warlock of Jonathan and who fought at WWII, and his equally wicked wife Selena, who had hidden a clock within the walls of the house before they died.


The Good German. Poster of the 2006 movie and cover of the 2001 book
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The Good German
Joseph Kanon, 2001
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Steven Soderbergh, 2006

Jacob Jake Geismer, an American war correspondent for The New Republic, returns to Berlin during the Potsdam negotiations between the Allied powers after World War II was over in Europe but before hostilities ended in Asia. Geismer becomes entwined in both the mystery of his murdered driver and the clandestine search by both Soviet and American forces for the missing German Emil Brandt.


The Turning. Poster of the 2013 movie and cover of the 2004 book
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The Turning
Tim Winton, 2004
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Jonathan auf der Heide, Tony Ayres, Jub Clerc, 2013

The Turning, a hauntingly gorgeous collaborative film directed by seventeen brilliant filmmakers, explores the remarkable events in ordinary lives that change them for the rest of time. The passing of time, regret, addiction, and obsession are constant themes that run through all of the stories.


The School for Good and Evil. Poster of the 2022 movie and cover of the 2013 book
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The School for Good and Evil
Soman Chainani, 2013
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Paul Feig, 2022

Best friends Sophie and Agatha navigate an enchanted school for young heroes and villains — and find themselves on opposing sides of the battle between good and evil.